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Socrates | greatest philosopher Greece who had to commit suicide by order of the government |
Plato | Socrates' student, founded the Academy, wrote "The Republic" |
Aeschylus | Father of Tragedy |
Sophocles | Playwrite who won the dramatic competition more often than any other playwrite |
Euclid | Father of Geometry |
Pythagoras | Mathematician who wrote the Pythagorean Theorem |
Archimedes | great engineer and mathematician who invented the pully and other tools |
Phidias | Greek sculptor of most of the decorations of the Parthenon |
Hippocrates | medical doctor and scientist who rejected the view that illness came from the gods |
Thucydides | "scientific" historian of the Peloponnesian War |
Herodotus | Father of History and Father of Lies, embellished the story of the Persian War |
Homer | blind poet who told the story of Achilles |
Aristotle | philosopher who tutored Alexander the Great |